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In One Person by John Irving
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Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
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The African Queen by C.S.Forester
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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Alice Through the Looking-glass
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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The Only Story by Julian Barnes
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Solar by Ian McEwan
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
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1984 by George Orwell
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Agnes Grey by Anne Brönte
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The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
Alice in Wonderland
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Nutshell
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The Structure of the Bible 4: The Covenant with Abraham
In
Genesis12 and following Abraham lives in Ur of the Chaldees, a place
known for moon worshippers.
He
is approached by El Shaddai to create a new covenant.
- The epiphany of God as El Shaddai (Gen 17), meaning 'The Nourisher, Benefactor”, the succourer as a mother to a baby. This is not a menacing God but one who will support and give life and meaning.
- El Shaddai establishes a new covenant with Abraham and his descendence, making good the promise that Israel will be the promised people (Gen 17). Circumcision is to be the outward sign of the covenant. Abraham is the first in the line of prophets (Gen 20/7).
- The promise made is redemption through the seed of Abraham.
- However the prople of Israel apostasise and lose faith in the one God (Josh 24).
- The curse is the destuction of Sodom & Gomorra (Gen 19).
- Promise of the land of Canaan
The Structure of the Bible 3: The Covenant with Noah
The
background to the flood episode in Genesis 6-11 is the “Epic of
Gilgamesh”, written in the Akkadian language of Babylonia and
Assyria, particularly
Tablet 11, kept in the British
Museum.
These
findings are in keeping with the writing down of the Bible story
while the Israelites were still in exile in Babylonia. The Babylonian epic
is assumed and transformed into the Israelite myth through the
theology of the covenant and God's special relationship with his
people. The narrative follows the covenant structure adding another layer to the
interpretation of Israel's history in the light of the covenant.
- Epiphany: God now appears as Creator and also Judge.
- The promise of a new covenant is offered where their will be no more universal destruction, the reversal of creation.
- However, the Israelites default on their part of the covenant and build religious shrines, ziggurats, copying their Mesopotamian neighbours. Their is also the case of Sodom & Gomorra.
- The curse is a confusion of languages and the dispersion of the 12 tribes, something witnessed by the Israelites in their divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and the Assyrian and Babylonian invasions.
- The story immediately follows up with that of Abraham, the promise that Israel will be the chosen people. (Gen 12)
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